Clark Haaland
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Clark Haaland
Thrive on the Raging Sea
"Be grateful that on this raging sea you have a mind to guide you." - Marcus Aurelius
If you feel overwhelmed, trust me, you're not alone.
But remember this:
The explorer doesn't set out on the voyage trusting that the seas will remain calm to stay perfectly on course.
Rather, the explorer trusts in the preparation and the... See more
"Be grateful that on this raging sea you have a mind to guide you." - Marcus Aurelius
If you feel overwhelmed, trust me, you're not alone.
But remember this:
The explorer doesn't set out on the voyage trusting that the seas will remain calm to stay perfectly on course.
Rather, the explorer trusts in the preparation and the... See more
Lighthouse Skills: How to Prepare for an Uncertain Future
October 2024
I'm usually reluctant to make predictions about technology, but I feel fairly confident about this one: in a couple decades there won't be many people who can write.
One of the strangest things you learn if you're a writer is how many people have trouble writing. Doctors know how many people have a mole they're worried about; people who... See more
I'm usually reluctant to make predictions about technology, but I feel fairly confident about this one: in a couple decades there won't be many people who can write.
One of the strangest things you learn if you're a writer is how many people have trouble writing. Doctors know how many people have a mole they're worried about; people who... See more
Paul Graham • Writes and Write-Nots
Writing is hard.
How to see with an astronaut's eyes, an illustrated love letter to words and the meanings between them, E.B. White on rehumanizing humanity
mail.google.comCuration leads to expertise. Through curation, you better understand yourself, history, and unlikely connections across fields. Increasingly, we will curate sources and ideas and let AI handle execution or assembly. Honing an ability to curate and arrange these sources will cultivate depth and meaning in your work—tuning the machine to your... See more
terrain.com • Design Literacy
The thing you are deeply yearning to create is told to you in all the subtle ways other people's artwork slightly misses the mark
Miles Johnstonx.comDecades into his long life, the poet Robert Graves defined love as “a recognition of another person’s integrity and truth in a way that... makes both of you light up when you recognize the quality in the other.”
Maria Popova • What Love Really Means: Iris Murdoch on Unselfing, the Symmetry Between Art and Morality, and How We Unblind Ourselves to Each Other’s Realities
I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God.”
-Soren Kierkegaard, Danish theologian and philosopher of the 1800s
-Soren Kierkegaard, Danish theologian and philosopher of the 1800s